The patient parson forgetting his text, or, The hogs in the ale cellar [graphic]

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Title: The patient parson forgetting his text, or, The hogs in the ale cellar [graphic]
Alternative Title: Hogs in the ale cellar
Creator: Barlow, Inigo, printmaker
Contributor: Collings, Samuel, artist.
Fores, S. W., publisher.
Published / Created: April 1,1791.
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Publish'd as the act directs, by S.W. Fores, N. 3 Piccadilly
Description: Title from item.
Two lines of verse on plate below image: Though parsons often patience teach ...
Illustration to ballad The Patient Parson. The text of the ballad is printed below the plate.
Publisher's advertisement at bottom of sheet: Just published in this manner, Mrs. Thrale's Three Warnings, The Greenwich Pensioner, Poll and My Partner Joe, and many other esteemed songs and pieces. In Fores's exhibition, No. 3 Piccadilly may be seen the compleatest collection of caricatures in Europe. Admittance one shilling.
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Temporary local subject terms: Ballads -- Clergy wives --Parsonage -- Pictures amplifying subject: 'Job in his distress' -- Wall clock -- Furniture: dinner table.
Watermark: fleur-de-lis.
Provenance: Leverhulme-Auchincloss, vol. v.
Extent: 1 print : round design 19.9 cm in diameter, plate mark 22.9 x 23.4 cm, on sheet 39 x 25 cm
Language: English

Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1791
Engravings England London 1791
Etchings England London 1791
Ballads England London 1791
Publishers' advertisements
Material: etching & engraving ; and laid paper hand-colored.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Geographic): England.
Subject (Topic): Brooms & brushes
Clergy
Clocks & watches
Interiors
Knives
Swine
Tableware
Subjects: Brooms & brushes
Clergy > England
Clocks & watches
Interiors
Knives
Swine
Tableware
England > 1791
England > London > 1791

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